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If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
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No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."
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The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
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He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
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The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
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But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
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Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is put away from a husband commits adultery.
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"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
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A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,
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and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.